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. . , . ...... i?. "" fWHBST ' i ' ' : gr-" ' ' .? *' ,e _ -..3$, * r ~w 'iOk * ? ? JR . * iJS v " . v " ^ X FORT MILL TIMES. VOL. XI. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2,1902. NO. 2 WOMAN'S BIG WORK Bill Arp Addresses the Woman's Home Mission Society. HE GIVES HIS UNSTINTED PR4ISE Tells of the Splendid Work and SelfSacrifice of Women?His Address Published in Full. Atlanta Constitution. Recently In Cartesville, Ga., the Woman's Home Mission Society of the north Georgia conference met. Among those who made addresses were Bill Arp. His talk was interesting throughout, and is by request from many reproduced in the Constitution in lieu of his regular letter. It follows in full: "^f our youth is happily spent, our old ago will be crowned with pleasant memories. How blessed are those "hildren whose homes are happy, whose parents are kind and loving, who are not cursed with wealth nor pinched with poverty. I believe that it is possible for parents to make the home so attractive that even the boys would rather stay there in their leisure hours than to seek the careless company of those about town whose homes are not happy. I don't know about David's home, nor what he did in his youth, but his prayer was on? of great anguish when he said 'Visit not upon me the fniriiiit iria i-%t mv vnn t Vi "Hut I was ruminating about tho state and condition of Methodism and missions in the lonR ago, when I was young and the most (f you were an unknown quantity. When 1 was in my teens and was Just noticing the girls and wondering what they were mads for, tho Methodist church was the only church in our town??nd it had the only graveyard. I was very familiar with that graveyard, for I had to pass J right hy it every night that I visited i my sweetheart's home. I had a rival in her affections, and one dark night he saw a ghost and ran lome and I got rid of him, though I vas accused of being the ghost. Near there was the 1 church and there were ".he people, hut where was the hell and where was the steeple, for it had neitl or. It was an old-fashioned unpainted building and had small glass windows of 8 by 10 glass, and two doors in front, which used to bo a peculiarity of Methodist churches. It was said that one door was t r* nl/o Ira tKo J *l? - *1 v??>, ... mo ikci ia tuiu me cjvucr to turn them out. The Baptist churohfi3 of that day had hut one door, for when once they got In thoy never got. out. This old church contained on the Sabbath nearly all the religion that was In the town, and at night was the trysting place of the old people who lioved God and the young men and maidens who loved one another. Notice was given that meeting would hegin at early candle-light. Candles! that Rave what Milton calls a dim religious light. Don't smile, my young friends, for Shakespeare wrote by candle-llgnt and says. 'How for that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' Everybody was familiar with the amen corner and had reverence for those who occupied it. My wife and I still remember the low, guttural amens of Brother Murphy, the snap-short amens of Brother Ivy. and the deep groanlngs of old Father Norton in echo to the pleading prayers of the preachers. Father Norton was a very close and stingy man and on one occation got to shouting and clapped his hands and exclaimed, 'Thank God for giving us a religion that has never cost me 2f> cents.' And the preacher responded. 'And may the Dord have mercy on your stingy soul.' ; We remember, too. the good Sister Tcnkins. who always had three or four little children tagging after her, hesides one at the breast, and how she I always took them to church and spread | them out on the long front bench and took a basket of biscuit and fried hicken to keep them quiet, and all the space between the front bench and the pulpit was their crawling ground, and when they wanted water she reached up to the pulpit and got it from the preacher's pitcher. "By and by a new preacher came who was deaermined to purge the church of its loose and languid members. At his second service he had before him the linolf r\T mnmhr,?1.1- 1 - ... Uviuucioui|i uuu reaa OUl tne roll and remarked that Homebody had been adding to some of the names In pencil with such capital letters as D. D., which he supposed stood for doctor of divinity, but learned latpr that it stood for dram drinker, and there were other letters, such as It. K., which stood for barkeeper, and N. T. for nigger 1 trader, and H. R. for horse racer, and ; there was G for gambler and nn F. for fiddler. He raised a big rumpus over all such as these and declared they should all bo turned out and thev were. He reminded me of old Simon Peter Richardson. who. while stationed here, went over to visit his old home on the Pecdee. in South Carolina. When he returned I asked him if he had a good time, and he said yes he had a glorious time in his old church?the church he first joined and used to preach in. Oh. said he, we had a glorious revival, the best I ever experienced. Did you take in many? snid I. 'Take in. take in; no my friend, we never took in nary one; but we turned seventeen out. thank the lx>rd. Oh. it was a glorious revival." CHURCH WORK THEN AND NOW. "But I was ruminating about the difference between now and then in church work and missions and salaries and church environments and the culture of the preachers. There was old Father Donally, with his wooden lev who always came to our campmeetings and attracted great crowds, who came to hear him scare the sinners and scarify the Christians and denounce the fashions and follies of the day. I have not forgotten his rebuke to a gay young j couple who behaved unseemly during j the sermon and the old man stopped | and said. 'If that young m^n over thero | with hair on his face and that young woman with a green bonnet on her ! head and the devil's martingales ; around her neck and his stirrups on ! her ears don't stop their giggling while I am preaching God's message to | sinners, I will pint 'em out to the con- | gregation.' But we had a number of ?uu uoiaoio preachers in those days. George Pierce, the bishop. 1 and old Lovic Pierco. his father, und Judge Longstreet. the eloquent president of Emory college, and Dr Means and Walker Glenn and old brother Parks used to attend our quarterly meetings and our revivals. They were ! all great and good men and the people i came from far and near to heur them, j No more eloquent and gifted divines have occupied the pulpits of Georgia j from that day to this. "Rut mission work was totally unknows as an organized feature of church work. The first we ever heard of j was Introduced by some northern emis-, i saries who came to this region to plant Christianity among the Indians. Two of them, whose names wore Worcester and Butler, were suspects, and arrested by order of Governor Gilmor and placed In Jail in Lawrenceville. where my father lived. It was believed that these men, who were Massachusetts yankees, were secretly trying to influence the Indians to violate the treaty and not to sell their lads to Georgia; but this was never proven, and Governor Gilmer turned them out on con- j dition that they would go back to New | England, and they went. I remember the excitement that pervaded our I townspeople during the event. John Howard Payne, the author of 'Home. \ Sweet Home,' was another suspect. He, too, was arrested and sent to Mllledgeville a prisoner, but was soon released and sent to Washington city with an escort. Two years ago I received a let- j tor from an old woman in Texas, who said she wan born near CarterBvilla in ! 1831, while her father, who was a Meth- ; odlst preacher was teaching an Indian mission school up the Ftowah river at a place called Laughing Gal. which was I the namo of an Indian chief. My old partner. Judge Underwood, knew him well, and said he was a good Indian. He i got his feminine name according to Indian custom, which was to name a new- j born child for the first thing tlint the i Indian doctor saw from the door of the wigwam after thn ohiiri u.- -?? K,-vr?, > 8f>, when the doctor looked out and saw an Indian maiden laughing, the little j baby boy had to be named Laughing ; Gal. Old man Harrison, who has been living here for sixty-five years, Is familiar with the name and the homo of laughing Gal. The Cherokee Indlnns took kindly to this missionary work. John Roes and Major Ridge, who were 1 liulf-breeds, became converts, and Ross1 son became a preacher, and so did his grandson .and I and my daughtr, Mrs. Aubrey, heard him j preach at Little Hock about twenty vears ago. CHANGE WROUGHT RY WOMAN'S1 WORK. "Rut you must pardon me. I did not rorget that the object of this conference was home mission work, but elo- | quent men and cultured women who have preceded nie have faithfully covered that ground in every phase and have left for me nothing but memories that are only kin to it. There is. how- j ever, no dividing line. Roth foreign and domestic missions are founded in Christian charity and Christian progress. There was a time when there was no such organization as home mission conference. When there was not a parsonagein the State, and the itenerant preachers were sheltered in any house that was vacant and could lie rented for a trifle?when their household goods were moved from place to place by a single team and the good wife and little children were mixed up with the load; when two or three hundred dollars was considered a liberal allowance for a year's support. But woman's work has , wrought a wondrous change over these conditions, and almost every town ai^d village has pro- J vided a comfortable home for the ' preacher's familv. Th? advance on ?Ms line has been rapid and It has been contagious. Ten years ago there was not a preacher's permanent domicile , In Cartersville, but now every church has a comfortable homo attached. Rut j let me say Just here flat there Is yet room for lmnroremenf J a ?- - , > n uuuai1 IS IlOl all of a home. It takes feh&dc trees and flowers and fniits and green grass and vinos to adorn and shade the veranda. Even a few pretty pictures and a mlr- , ror would not come amiss, for such I things cannot be safely moved. if nothing better can be supplied, you I might put a painted motto over tho ; mantd. "God Bless Our Temporary , Home.' Our Cartersvllle Methodists have built a nice, comfortable hous?\ but I have to furnish Brother Yarbrough with Presbyterian strawberries, and he feels constrained to pay. me back in Methodist tomatoes. I promise now to furnish every parsonage in town with strawberries and raspberry plants next fall If the flood ladles wil! have them planted. I have noticed that the children of preachers are as fond of these things as other children, and their wives and daughters aro as fond of flowers. Yes. my friends, mis- , sion work, whether foreign or domestie, is advancing all along the lines. ! Home missions are but a nursery for those wider fields that take in all mankind. The spirit of charity?love of God and love to man?is tho founda- j tion of all and there Is no boundary to that, no conference limits, no Mason i and Dixon lines. The good Samaritan I did not stop to inquire where the sin-1 foror lived. Charity is the onl>V thing upon which all mankind agree.jU'opc | sayu: ft I I j " 'In faith and creed the world will I disagree. But all mankind unite on charity." "And Wad8\vorth says: " 'The charities that soothe and heal 1 and bless Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers.' " MADAME DE ST A ED AND MISS STONE. "Charity is the essence of love, and love is the fulfilling of the law. Charity. like mercy, is not strained, but ! droppeth as the gentle dew from hoav- j en upon the earth beneath. It is twice ; blessed. 'It blesseth him that gives j and him the ' " " iiuiii receive.' Madame do Stuel said. 'The only bank account we will have in heaven will be what we pave away in charity." Sometimes we question the self-sacrifice of missionary work in foreign lands, and the recent case of Miss Stone has staggered the faith of those who help unwillingly; but the command of the Savior after His resurrection is ever before us: 'Go ye unto all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Not long a go a lady said to mo. 'Welt if we cannot convert them, we can civilize them.' The gospel of a clean shirt goes side by side with that of repentance. Wherever the missionary has gone, his or her message has been addressed to the head as well as to the heart. John Wesley said that cleanliness was next thing to godliness. A clean body and a comfortable home is the beginning of religion. But neither the abduction of Miss Stone nor the personal sacrifices of thousands of others for a moment stops or impedes the work of the missionaries. It broadens and lengthens as the years roll on. uplifting the lives of the ignorant and degraded in the dark places of the earth. The twenty millions contributed this last year to this cause proves that the god of greed and selfishness has qot assumed entire sway over this iiuiiuu. mpse millions bring no return In wealth to the donors, notiiine but the reward of duty performed. "Just think of It for a moment. Do you know that we have eighteen thousand missionaries in foreign lands? In China. India, Turkey. Egypt, and Cape I Colony, and theRe missionaries are reinforced by eighty thousand native preachers and teachers. They have j churches In twenty-three thousand towns and villages, with one and a half million communicants and Christian communities of over four million oupils. These missionaries hnve over ! four million pupils under instruction. They have ninety-four universities and colleges, and so|e of them are world- . renowned and rank well with out own. | The best endowed of these colleges are at Constantinople, Beirut, Pekin, ! r^gypt and Cape Colony. Then there are I over one thousand secondary schools for training in the arts and industries, ' and also one hundred and twenty-two j kindergarten schools. The most grati- ! fylug and significant fact is that moro 1 and rejoice, for It is a pitiful fact that girls. The colleges have over two I thousand of them, and in .the common schools they constitute more than half the number of pupils. Just think of it , and rejoice, for it is a pitful fact that i for centuries in these benighted lands women has been under the ban, and j young girls were slaves to man's domi- . nation, convenience and passion. What a beautiful and glorious picture she now has of the freedom and elevation of her sex, and it has all come i through the work of missionaries, anil ! Is worth a million times more than it j has ever cost. WOMAN'S GREAT WORK. "The freedom anil elevation of wo- 1 man is the most glorious and heavenly i work of the past century, and ii still ( goes on, not only in foreign lands, but heijp at home. Woman is now at the j head of every charitable work. Who j else is educating our children in the j public schools? Who is foremost in i the church, the Sabbath school, the Epworth League and the aid societies'.' who is in almost exclusive charge of this conference? Fifty years ago she had no voice in these things and they were considered beyond her sphere and St. Paul was quoted against her evry time, she presumed to talk In meeting or speak very loud at home. The Savior did not so speak to the wonyin of Samaria, nor condemn the one the Jews wished to stone because it was the Mosaic law. 'Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more,' was tho most beautful sermon on forgveness that was ever preached. But the halt cannot be now told you n relaton to our mssonary work. Thnk of the 159 publshng houses that last year sent out 10.800,000 volumes. Thnk of the 456 dfferont translatons of the Bble nto foregn tongues. Thnk of the department of medicine that goes side by sidel with the mission work in every land. We have now 379 hospitals and 783 dispensaries or drug stores and during last year 6,500,000 cases were ucaieu. inure are. sixiy-sevea niedl- ; cal schoc.ls and training schools for j nurses, with 650 pupils, male and fe- ; male. There are 247 orphanages and ; asylums, over one hundred homes for lepers, thirty for tho mute and blind and 156 for the insane and the slaves to opium. Is it not amazing, the extent of this work? Can we stop it? Can we imptde it? Shall we neglect it? If it be of man it will come to naurht. I but if it bo of God we connot overthrow it. and if we oppose or neglect it it will be like fighting against God. "My Christian friends, 1 thank you for the privilege of making these farewell remarks. When your presiding officer wrote to me a kind letter, in- ! viting me to participate in these exer rises. I was surprised and pleased, for it was another sign of that growing ' fellowship which is now pervading all Christian denominations. The bitter- j ness of sectarianism is passing away.! 1 heard a gentleman say the other day; 1 'I am a Lutheran, and prefer that church to any other, for I was raised up in it. but when I travel and find no Lutheran church in the. town or vil- j I lage where the Sabbath catches mo 1 always find a welcome and feel at home in any Christian church. Love of God and love of man covers all creeds and all forms of worship.' "That is the spirit of universal brothorhood. Hove is stronger than creeds or kindred or country. Especially the love of woman. David's highest tribute to Jonathan was that his love of women. Ruth, the Moabitess. was not an Israelite, but she j left her home and her native land to I live with her husband's mother because | she loved her. How often do we see | \fnthrwlic* ?? ??? v ui in-aujicriaii women choosing their mates outside of their church and joining the church of the'r husbands. They do not stop to consult j the creed, but change their church as j willingly as they change their name j and 1 have known them to do that two or three times. Brother Sam j Jones is not ashamed to tell how he | found his wife in a Baptist duck pond, i and I make no secret of telling how I j found mine in that same old Methodist j church I have described to you?not up , in the 'Amen' comer among the saints, j nor afar back among the sinners, but about midway, where the angels congregate. Men do not change their churches to please their wives for they j still maintain their rightful lordship as I me noaa or the family. But for love a woman will change nut only her church but her name. The love of woman has no parallel. It extinguishes nil fear. The apostleB shrank from I danger and hid themselves, and one be- | trayed and another denied his Ixird grave. and master, but woman was last at His "Then we bid you God-speed in your noble work, you members of this mission. It Paul had respect for the Jews because unto them was committed th? oracles of God, how much more shall we haev respect for the Christian women of this land who are planting those oracles at home and abroad. RAM'S HORN BLASTS|1 - o conscrrato your I 1 money act as God's I JL steward. alities are the .. uuaiucsa is ii curse wnon he is too busy to stop to do good. BRITISH CAPTURE_F|VE GUNS. Tlin lteatilt of u Combined Movrintnt AKulimt (Seuernl Delarey. London.?Reports of tin* result of j the combined movement of Hritish colunius against General Delarey enable General Kitclieuer to announce the i capture of l.'Jo prisoners, three fifteen- i pounders, two pompons and quantities of stock, wagons, etc. Delarey sue- i cessfully evaded General Kitcliener*s ! cordon at the offset. Killed While Handling Kxpltifiivofi. While loading nitro-glycerine into Jii.? I wagon at I'MnUlay, Ohio, John Durau was blown to atoms. Aaka Not*! Injunction. Government by injunction has assumed a new terror. A Newark (N. J.), girl has made application to restrain a young man who she says promised to marry her from marrying another girl. ' realities. -^Ion want hands , M niorc than hadThe American character is moro than the Constitution. It is hard to find a truth without an error in its shadow. The word needs kindnes of heart ! more than keenness of head. When men give God their manhood as well as their names the church will not lack for means. The worst cowardice is that of the man who does wrong for fear of being called a coward. A man's religion must he bankrupt when he can only pay the Lord fonv days on the year. It is not enough to make good promises to God, we must make our promises good. The divine in the Christian is the best demonstration of the divinity of Christ. A man is not thirsting for knowledge just because he asks curious questions. Ixiok out for the honesty of the man who talks a great deal about his honor. Even an awkward deed is better than ! the most eloquent dream. Tiie attempt to be a good fellow has ?ij.ii n*u many a Rood man. God has no interest in the church that has no interest in the poor. The supreme things are seen with the soul instead of with the senses. Men who are all for the outside are frequently not at all for the inside. Tho value of a man's opinion on a subject depends on what it costs him | to live up to them. He who is quick to promise is often slow to perform. When Christ is the alphabet life he- i comes God's literature. It takes a life-time to learn to read God's hook of Providence. The possessions of great means often produces great meanness. A truly great name was never bought at the price of a good one. Usually the little things are the last we are willing to leave to God. It is never safe to waste the day of j life since tho night falls without warning. A man'e Knn!?A?/. ' ~ - TO SIFT BRIBLRY CHARGES Committee to Investigate Purchase of Danish West Indies. GREAT SENSATION IN THE HOUSE Minority l.rndi>r Rlrlinrilaon Introduce* the Clinrcrn in the Form of a Kmolntlon?Corrupt Font nicl? to Kztcut of S,"iOO,()(H? Willi Concrroiupi mid Other l'eranna Allrcnl?Tim Committer. Cienfuegos and Santiago at $3000 each. . lie recommends abandoning tlio six other consulates maintained in Cuba ' during Spanish domination, tlio inter- ; csts represented not beiug large. The j message concludes: "The commercial and political conditions in Cuba while under the Spanish crown afford little basis for estimating the local development of intercourse with this country under the influence of the new relations which have been created by the achievement ol' Cuban Independence, and which are to be broadened an 1 strengthened in every proper way by conventional pacts with the Cubans and by wise and beneficent i legislation aiming to stimulate the ; commerce between the two countries ' If the great task we accepted in lS'JS i is to be fittingly accomplished." WYOMING MURDERER LYNCHED. M?kI<p(I Men HungeS Woodward, Whoa* Sentence Had Keen Stayed. Casper, Wyo. ? Charles Francis Woodward, the condemned murderer of Sheriff William C. Kicker, was hanged by twenty-iour masked men. Woodward's sentence had just been stayed by a Supreme Court writ. The leaders demanded the jail keys of the Sheriff. He ..-fused to give them up, and they secured sledges and hammers and heat down t!io jail door. A rope was quickly thrown around Woodward's ucck, ard he was roughly dragged from the building. 11 < wns taken to the scaffold which had been erected for his legal execution. Some one pushed him onto the trap, hut he gave a leap before the trap could be sprung and fell frou the gallows, hanging himself. PEACOCK FAMILY RETURN HOME. lleri'tlTon Wnrn ?n Uio Trait and Acron. paniorl Them to tin* llouae. Pitlshuig, Pa. Alexander 11. Pea- 1 cuek returned f oiu New York Lily with iiis family, lie had a private car j attached to tiie train. The train contained quite a squad of detectives. These scrutinized every one who got on and off at stopping places. The Peacock family alighted at the East Liberty Station. Seven carriages lined up to receive the Peacock family, and as the train stopped the detectives formed a sort of screen around them. The detectives entered the vehicles, and with two carriages of armed men ia front and two in the rear, the Peacock family were driven to their hoiue. Washington, n. c.?The House without a dissenting vote decided to investigate the charges made by Captain ! Walter Christinas that, while proniot- | ing the sale of the Danish West Indies to this country, he had made corrupt contracts to the extent of ?,">00,000 with members of Congress and other persons. The charge was made in an alleged report to the Danish Government by Captain Christmas in 1900, and was publicly noticed in the spring of that year. The investigation was ordered l?y the adoption of a resolution offered by the minority under Mr. Richardson. An attempt was made to dissuade the House from adopting the resolution by pointing out that Captain Christmas was by his own confession a ras ;nl, and that there was not the slightest likelihood that there was any substance to his charges. The Democrats, however, insisted the charges ought to lie investigated, and the Republicans, as a matter of political strategy, were forced to assent to the demand. Mr. Cannon wanted the matter to go over for a day so that the members of the House might be better informed as to the alleged grounds f<Jr the investigation. but the Democrats had so much to say about prompt vindication of the honor of the country that Mr. Cannon was not able to hold his party in line. .Messrs. Dnlzell, I lilt. Cousins, Me- I Call. Ilichardsou, Dinsmore and Cow- I lierd were appointed as the Committee of Investigation. The general feeling is that with the appointment of the committee the incident practically was closed. There does not appear to 1h> the slightest reason for believing that Captain Christmas told the truth when he said, as alleged, that he had contrnet&l to pay half a million dollars in bribes to members of Congress and other prominent citizens of the United States, including managers of newspapers and press associations. t . . SPECIAL CUBAN MESSACE. ^ rrolilmt Auk* leu to Kntakllsh Diplomatic Delation*. Washington, D. C.?President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress asking for legislation for the appointment of 11 Minister to Cuba at a salary of $10,000; a tlrst and second Secretary of Legation at $2000 and $ir?oo respectively; a Cousul-tJenerul i at Havana at .SaOOO and Consul* at ? :? "fc, 1 * *. < H. CLAY EVANS RESIGNS ? Retiremont to Take Place at tbf President's Pleasure. ' 5 5a Mr. Koonevelt Will Mot Let HI** G? ' Until Some Higher foot 1* An'J* ble For Him. Washington. D. C.?H. Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pensions, lias tentiered Ills resignation to the President. ! Tli following letter, together with Pi.il' IIICUI, WIH 11U1UC lle ut tlie White House: "To the President: "Fo some titue L have been consid| ering the question of resigning. It will soon l?e live years siuee I assumed the duties of tliis otliee, and 1 now have the honor of tendering you my resignation as Commissioner of Pensions, and will thank you to accept the same at as early a date as may suit your convenience. "Thanking you for your kindly consideration. and with assurances of my best wishes, 1 am very respectfully, "11. FLAY 10VANS." The statement appended to the letter is as follows: "Mr. Evans, some months ago, verbally expressed his desire to resien. ami finally put it in writing on March ir>. The President, however, has told him that he will have to remain as Commissioner, in the tlrst place, until ills successor has been determined upon, and. in the second place, until there is some position to tender him which the President will regard as a promotion, and as a fitting reward for ids excellent services in the department." Well informed persons pronounce as ridiculous the story that tlie President asked Mr. Evans to resign, and that the request was based on a report of the I'ensiou Committee of the Grand Army of the Republic. It Is denied point blank that the President ever intimated to Mr. Evans that lie would like to have his resignation. The President is said to entertain a high opinion of the Evans administration of tlie Pension Cilice. The President continues to hear of new candidates for the Evans place. If UMIu crJ fnn - ' * ...... uui mill, us MJOU JIS UU! place is vacant the President will bo asked to fill It by the advancement of .1. L. Davenport, the present Deputy Commissioner. At another time, when there was talk of the early retirement of Mr. Evnns, Senator (Jalllnger suggested to President McKiuley that he should make Mr. Davenport Commissioner. Another candidate mentioned Is Frank I/. Campbell, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Judge Campbell is a veteran of the Civil War. with an enviable army record, and it is said his appointment to succeed Mr. Evnns would be entirely satisfactory to tho Grand Army of the Republic. SHORTEST SESSION SINCE 1794. therr Warn 1827 Itllln Introduced In tb? Senate; 1273 In the Assembly. Albany, N. Y.?The State Legislature this year has held the shortest session since 171H. It has been remarkable for the number of bills which were passed in the closing days. In the Assembly 1N27 bills were introduced, and in the Senate 12711, and a large proportion have been favorably acted upon. The most important bills passed are the following affecting the State at large: The Rogers bill abolishing the boards of managers of the State hospitals for tho insane, and vesting their power in the State Lunacy Commission. The Ellsworth bill placing the charitable institutions of the Ktnti. mwlof I lie Inspection of a tlscnl supervisor. The Krum hill tuxiug foreign corporations. The Wcckes and Senate Judiciary Committee hills for the suppression of anarchy. The Davis hill reducing the time and expense of receiverships. The Fowler hill increasing the free school fund for the especial aid of rural districts. The Krum hill eularging the list and scope of securities of savings hanks. The Mills amendment to the Constitution, the itogers and Braekett hills, for the relief of the congested conditions existiug In the courts of New York and Kings Counties. The Slater liability bill. ASSASSIN'S WEAPONS IN MUSEUM Czolgofu'* Kevolvpr ?nit Handkerchief Given to f I iNterlcul Society, Buffalo, N. Y.?The revolver, cartridges and handkerchief which were used hy Czolgoaz in assassinating President McKlnley, have been given to the ltuffalo Historical Society. District Attorney l'enney hesitated for some time as to whether it would not Ih' better to send the important historical relics to Washington, hut finally determined on Buffalo. In accepting the relics the Historical Society lIl'OTll i Sf f 1 til (fllni'il /......tf.?ll.. - ........ ....... ...Klllllj. SHIP SUNK BY A WHALE. TIio Anol?>i?t Knrk Knttilaen nt I.nut Knil* Her Currer. New Bedford, Mass. Word was rereived here by the agents of t ho whaling bark Kathleen that she had been sunk at sea by a whale. Cnptin Tlioiuas 11. Jenkins cables from l'ernambuco, Brazil, that three of the four boats had arrived at that place. The missing boat contained nine men. The captain's wife and the officers wore among those who got to land safely. The Kathleen was value at $1'\000. She was built lu 1814. llor gross ton-, nage was 20?. ,